Withered Knight is one of the most powerful classes of Mistfall Hunter. No matter if you are dealing with tough bosses or fighting against other players, a good combination of skills, talents, gear, and affixes may play an important role. In general, the goal of this particular build is to provide you with great damage and some level of survivability. In this guide, we’ll show you the best skills, talents, gear setup, and affixes to help you get the most out of your Withered Knight.
Mistfall Hunter: Best Withered Knight Build
The reason why this build allows you to solo all the bosses in Hollow Grove using the Withered Knight is that it is very easy. The advantage of this particular build is the fact that it does not require any expensive equipment. The vast majority of the bosses can be killed using the complete set of green equipment. The Withered Knight provides you with extremely powerful damage in PvE. You do not have to use any special PvP skills to achieve this goal.
Best Skills
Skills needed are flexible due to the fact that the majority of your damage comes from basic attacks. The suggested build comprises:
- Greatsword as your main weapon
- A dash for mobility
- A parry for defence
- A hook to close the distance
This setup lets you fight bosses effectively while also being prepared if another player attacks you.
Best Talents
Greatsword Specialist: Greatsword Specialist must be selected first since it increases the skills of your Greatsword by decreasing one skill of the Polearm. As your Greatsword will be utilised during your boss fight, this talent is a good choice for you.
The most important talent is the left path talent. In general, when using Wither, it consumes the Wither stacks. This talent allows changing these rules. Now, when you use your execute, it will not consume Wither, will decrease execute damage and increase the effect duration instead. When having three Wither stacks on your target, stop performing heavy hits and use two light hits instead.
Bad Karma is another key talent. Every time your Greatsword applies Wither, it also adds a Linked debuff. Using Execute extends the duration and can apply up to three stacks. These stacks:
- Slow the enemy
- Increase their vulnerability
- Deal small damage over time
The Vulnerability effect is especially valuable because it makes bosses take even more damage.
Legacy heals you for some HP every time an enemy with Wither on them dies. After casting Execute, Righteous Creed buffs your physical damage for a brief period of time. You will be using Execute during all of your boss encounters, and therefore this talent gives you additional damage.
Choose a talent allowing you to use your basic attack after casting a skill of the Greatsword to transition into Pursuit easily and effectively. It will make you stick to bosses for longer and stack up your Wither faster. Super Armour is unlocked after a parry, and this parry talent is highly recommended as it will allow you to attack more freely.
Gear Setup
The gear in this build is pretty simple. In case you have two slots free on your equipment, go for the Round and Rectangle Sigils. This way, you will create a proper balance that will fit your build well.
Best Affixes
This build has four affixes of level 5 that can be combined perfectly.
Tenacious boosts your maximum HP and adds a 7.5% bonus to all healing. The increase in health makes you harder to kill, and the bonus to healing helps you regenerate more in prolonged battles.
Stoic adds extra resistances and also comes with an excellent passive effect. Whenever your health falls below 30%, it instantly recovers 15% of your maximum HP. With this build, you have almost 1,000 HP, so it will help you restore about 150 HP. Sometimes, the extra healing is enough for you to survive one or even two attacks.
Valour increases your damage output and helps you not give up any offensive power to get extra survivability. Vitality is one of the key affixes in this build. This affix gives you 20 extra Vitality and also gives you the Energy Overdraft effect.
